I Found My Office…
Well, much to my surprise, I was roaming around the house after I put my son to bed and came upon a door, the door looked familiar yet somehow different. Beyond the door I found my office. We have been using it as a storage room since our remodeling fiasco started.
Improvements on the office have been continuing off and on for the past couple of years. A little history about our house. The house built in 1961. It’s original owners were my wife’s grandparents When they passed away in 2005 we purchased it at market value from Skye’s mom. Skye’s grandfather was an engineer and had a contractor’s license. He built the “Storage Room” in 1965.
Office before 2006 remodel
We found the drawings in our file at City Hall when we applied for the permits for our remodel in 2006. It’s about 20 feet long by 7 feet. It is technically connected to the house since it is behind the garage, but you need to go outside to get to it.
According to the city it is considered “Storage” so therefore not included in the square footage of the house.
Office/Storage Room
It is, however, built as if it were it’s own structure with a poured foundation, power outlets, lights, windows and wood paneling.
Storage Room 12-15-2005
Last September my wife and I made a big push on moving forward in fixing it up. We started staining all the wood in there, the beams the wood paneled walls and we painted the wall that shares the garage a dark brown. We covered the 9 x 9 blue and white asbestos tiles with a linoleum wood floor that was laid down in strips reminiscent of laying strips of wood floor. After that everything sort of stopped. We we had other projects like tearing out the jungle on the other side of the backyard to put in a new patio, and tearing out the other jungle on the other side of the yard to put in more grass.
So last night I started to set up my game plan.
- Install New Door
- Install Biometric Door-lock
- Get the computer up and running on my newly
- Set up Home network
- Find a place for all my crap!
I think my task for tonight is to run some CAT 5 cable through the attic into the garage then into the office. Our wireless router is in the family room behind the television; I’m going to run a hard line directly from the router to a switch in the office then to my workstation. This way I can always extend my network in to the backyard by placing an access point off the switch to cover the left side of the backyard.
We’ll see what happens, Skyler wasn’t feeling too well last night, I may have to camp out on the floor by his bed tonight, again.
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